National Clinical Audits

Please choose your type of
audit.

National Audit of Dementia (care in general
hospitals). Admission to a general hospital can be a
difficult and distressing event for people with dementia and is
often associated with a worsening in their condition. This audit
will help to identify structures, clinical practice and standards
affecting people with dementia in general hospitals across England
and Wales and to look into priority areas for improvement of
services for people with dementia.

National Audit of
Schizophrenia (NAS) will enable clinicians who
treat people with schizophrenia in the community to assess the
quality of their prescribing of antipsychotic drugs and of their
monitoring of patients’ physical health. It will also support
them to monitor patients’ experience of treatment and its
outcome. Through the audit, local services will be able to
compare their performance with national standards and to benchmark
with other services, identifying what they do well and where there
is potential to improve. Wide participation in the audit will
also create an overview of the quality of care being provided
nationally.

Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health-UK
(POMH-UK) helps mental health services monitor
and improve prescribing
practice. The project provides a range of services
to members (Trusts and private healthcare organisations). The
core are fully supported programmes of clinical audit,
individualised benchmarking reports and a range of change
interventions to help improve practice.

Memory Clinics
Audit is a fixed-term project being undertaken by the
Royal College of Psychiatrists in collaboration with the Department
of Health. The results will feed into the update one year on
from the Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia.
All memory clinics in England and Wales will be asked to complete a
survey by the end of January 2013 and the results will be available
in March 2013.